Some of the Worst Game Remasters! - When Remasters Go Bad
27We've looked at some of the most requested remasters, but now let's look at the remasters or remakes so bad, we wish we never actually got them. How can a remaster be worse than the original? Well a lot of these games manage to find a way.
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0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Remastering Opportunities / XIII
0:45 - Remaster Teams / Outsourcing
1:25 - Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy
2:40 - Final Fantasy VI
3:42 - The Master Chief Collection
4:22 - Warcraft III Reforged
5:12 - Silent Hill 2 & 3 HD
5:47 - Licensing Issues
When remastering a game, a studio has the opportunity to make some quality of life improvements or add some extra content, but go too far and you risk damaging the identity of the game. It can be a tough balancing act, and different gamers want different things. I think the remaster of XIII is a good example of things going to far, aside from bugs and bad AI, Ubisoft remastered the graphics to the point that it looks like a completely different game and it lost unique art style the game was praised and loved for. It sits currently at Overwhelmingly Negative on Steam reviews.
You get some cases where the remasters of games are assigned to less experienced teams within big companies like Ubisoft and that's to help build up the experience of newer staff, there's less work in remastering a game as opposed to creating a completely new game. Some companies will even outsource the remastering of their games to other companies, and when the game is in the hands of another studio, you can't always guarantee they'll be faithful and respect the original games. Bluepoint is a studio well known for specialising in remasters and remakes, and they do a really good job from the God of War collection to Demon Souls, but when Rockstar outsourced the remastering of the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy to Grove Street Games it was a different case, let's get into that.
Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy Remastered has been hitting the news lately with some pretty ridiculous and meme worthy clips from the clearly unfinished game. There's some horrible character models with really long arms, monstrosities with no shoulders or necks, spelling typos, buggy weather effects and crazy rain that's not transparent, and there's performance and frame rate issues with them being worst on the Nintendo Switch. Some of this stuff is entertainingly bad.
No matter how much they mess things up, at least we still have the originals, well if you already own them, because Rockstar removed the original games from digital stores to push people to instead buy the more expensive new ones. So the remastered Trilogy was published by Rockstar but was actually developed by Grove Street Games, and it's pretty obvious that this has been pushed out early and unfinished to get some Christmas sales. I don't think Rockstar were expecting the massively negative reception they rightly recieved, but they should have learnt from Cyberpunk's huge mistake from releasing unfinished.
I was really looking forward to replaying these 3 Grand Theft auto games, I started dabbling in the originals but I was having some controller problems and decided to just wait for the remasters. All power to you if you're enjoying them but I think I'm gonna wait for some patches and discounts.
Final Fantasy VI had incredible pixel art originally on the Super Nintendo, and was ported to a lot of different systems, the game boy advance version added 2 bonus dungeons and several new summons, albeit the audio quality would be a bit lower on a game boy advance but it's generally considered great with the extra content. But come 2015 and Final Fantasy VI was ported once again, this time to steam. Square Enix cleaned up and re-did a lot of the artwork, but they butchered it, the character models looked terrible, textures didn't even line up and tile correctly, attention to detail was missing, horrible user interfaces better designed for touch screens, and it now used a very basic and bland font.
With Final Fantasy VI there's been a complete change in art style with no respect for original game & material. But Square Enix will be re-mastering FF6 again on steam, coming soon, and the new remaster looks like it's going to be good and more faithful to the pixel art graphics but you'll need to fork out the re-buy the game again.
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